Environmental vocabulary service

The National Environmental vocabulary service is the IT infrastructure within the NEII, developed to host selected environmental vocabularies. It provides a uniform mechanism for publishing standardised vocabularies and supports the ability to query vocabularies and terms; and identify and navigate hierarchies of terms.

The NEII Environmental vocabulary service provides a mechanism to create, curate and publish environmental vocabularies making them accessible to computers, systems and people.

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)

ACLUMP

This is a land use nomenclature and classification scheme for Australia, ordering land use in a systematic, logical and consistent way. It has a three-tiered hierarchical structure. Primary, secondary and tertiary classes are broadly structured by the potential degree of modification and the impact on a putative 'natural state' (essentially, a native land cover).

The primary classes of land use in the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification are:

1. Conservation and natural environments—land used primarily for conservation purposes, based on maintaining the essentially natural ecosystems present.2. Production from relatively natural environments—land used mainly for primary production with limited change to the native vegetation.3. Production from dryland agriculture and plantations—land used mainly for primary production based on dryland farming systems.4. Production from irrigated agriculture and plantations—land used mostly for primary production based on irrigated farming.5. Intensive uses—land subject to extensive modification, generally in association with closer residential settlement, commercial or industrial uses.6. Water—water features (water is regarded as an essential aspect of the classification, but it is primarily a cover type).

The ALUM Classification has been developed in collaboration with national, state and territory agencies as part of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP). The Classification has been applied to the creation of nationally consistent land use datasets.

This scheme specifies concepts used to describe methods used to drill a borehole, as defined by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information (CGI) Geoscience Terminology Working Group. By extension, it includes all concepts in this conceptScheme, as well as concepts in any previous versions of the scheme.

The Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas (GDE Atlas) was developed as a national dataset of Australian GDEs to inform groundwater planning and management. It is the first and only national inventory of GDEs in Australia.

The GDE Atlas web-based mapping application allows you to visualise, analyse and download GDE information for an area of interest without needing specialised software.

The National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) is a spatial database for GIS specialists that contains a range of groundwater information submitted by States and Territories. The NGIS contains information on more than 870 000 bores and their attributes—such as purpose and date they were drilled. The database also includes logs of their lithology, construction and hydrostratigraphy as well as groundwater management areas and aquifer boundaries. 2.5D and 3D aquifer geometries are also available for some areas. Hydrogeologic units within the NGIS have been standardised for national consistency using the National Aquifer Framework.

The National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) is an ongoing collaborative initiative between the Australian and state and territory governments. This initiative aims to manage national vegetation floristic and structural data to improve vegetation planning and management within Australia. NVIS is the only nationally comprehensive means of describing and representing vegetation information based on relationships between structural and floristic data. This data set consists of a standard vocabulary for Australian native vegetation growth forms